Meanwhile Rob Biertempfel of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says the Pirates won't rush their top prospects. Once those prospects are promoted to the big league team, their minor league roster spots will be filled by players currently on ML roster (after they're optioned down) or by "signing low-cost, minor league free agents."

With all of the youth on the Indians, plus the injury to Sizemore, I see no reason not to keep Kearns around. If someone blows them away with an offer, I would trade him, but if not, I’d see if he wanted to stick around for next year.

Obviously it all depends on his asking price, but resigning Barajas is the total opposite of “buying low, selling high.” His SLG is 100 points higher than his career SLG, so when that evens out, he’s back to a ~.700 OPS player.

Alright, I know Strasburg has had now 2 awesome debuts, even counting that fact he’s now been up against 2 of the worst offenses in baseball. But has anyone else noticed how Storen has helped quietly turn the back end of the Nationals bullpen into something scary to face?

Like johnmiltonrocks, I think extending Kearns makes sense for the Indians. I think Westbrook is gone before the deadline, however. If the Reds are still in it at the break and Homer Bailey’s shoulder is shot, the sinkerballer Westbrook makes perfect sense for Great American Smallpark.

I agree that Westbrook would be a great fit for the Reds. The Reds have nice farm things too. And I hope the Indians are in no rush to let go of Kearns. Their minor league outfielders are just not far enough in their development and Grady is going to be a question mark until he turns up on the field again. They can always move him next season too.

yeah talk about steals of the year Uribe and Huff, especially Uribe have carried the offense on their back the whole season. We finally have something that resembles an offense with Torres,Sanchez,Sandoval,Huff,Uribe,Posey and now Burrell. The best part of our offense no more Rowand or Renteria.

I think Bell said the same thing like 1-2 years ago about returning to the Mets.

I would love to get him back, but I really oppose trading for relievers and I don’t think San Diego would deal him unless they received a useful piece in return (like a bat whose blocked in the system); the Mets don’t really have that, unless you count Chris Carter, though obviously that wouldn’t be enough to get Bell.